Action Workshop

In the fall of 2009 the Centre hosted the annual Green Roof Action Workshop at our Green Roof Research Facility. At that time videos of the presentations were taken. We are pleased to announce that they have been digitally reformatted to make them available for your viewing.

Information & Resources

Feel free to use the resources here, with credit to "BCIT" and reference to our website: www.greenroof.bcit.ca.
If you wish to alter the text or images, please contact us prior to publication.

 

Presentations

BCIT Green Roof Presentation

The Facts and Myths about Green Roofs

Images

Graphics

Green Roof Graphic
Traditional Roof Graphic

Green Roof Research Facility

BCIT's Green Roof Research Facility - south face
BCIT's Green Roof Research Facility - west faceing
BCIT's Green Roof Research Facility - east facing
BCIT's Green Roof Research Facility - Phase 1 Research
Weather Station P5
Roofing Evaluation Modules (REMs)

BCIT Green Roof Events

Roofing Evaluation Modules (REMs) as seen from the roof of the Research Facility
Interpretive displays answer questions about green roof materials
Sedum bed, REMs and Green Roof Workshop
(during World Urban Festival, June 2006)
Green Roof Workshop
Living wall demonstration
(during World Urban Festival, June 2006)

Green roofs in B.C.

Vancouver Public Library green roof
VPL from above
Popcorn stand, Stanley Park - Cob house with green roof
White Rock Operations Building
Vancouver Convention Centre Expansion Project - model
Coombs Old Country Market

Green roof plants

Yellow Ice Plant (Delosperma nubigenum)
Sedums and caterpillar
White Stonecrop (Sedum album)
Tasteless Stonecrop (Sedum sexangulare)

Green roof plants native to B.C.

Coastal Strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis)
Spreading Stonecrop (Sedum divergens)
Oregon Stonecrop (Sedum oreganum)
Broad-leaved Stonecrop (Sedum spathulifolium)